Associations between maternal stress, early language behaviors, and infant electroencephalography during the first year of life

Abstract Associations have been observed between socioeconomic status (SES) and language outcomes from early childhood, but individual variability is high. Exposure to high levels of stress, often associated with low-SES status, might influence how parents and infants interact within the early language environment. Differences in these early language behaviors, and in early neurodevelopment, might underlie SES-based differences in language that emerge later on. Analysis of natural language samples from a predominantly low-/mid-income sample of mother-infant dyads, obtained using the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system, found that maternal reports of exposure to stressful life events, and perceived stress, were negatively correlated with child vocalizations and conversational turns when infants were 6 and 12 months of age. Greater numbers of vocalizations and conversational turns were also associated with lower relative theta power and higher relative gamma power in 6- and 12-month baseline EEG – a pattern that might support subsequent language development.

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Associations between infant temperament, maternal stress, and infants’ sleep across the first year of life

Infant Behavior and Development ◽

10.1016/j.infbeh.2015.02.010 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 39 ◽

pp. 131-135 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Barbara M. Sorondo ◽

Bethany C. Reeb-Sutherland

Keyword(s):

Maternal Stress ◽

Infant Temperament ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Of Life

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Language input and outcome variation as a test of theory plausibility: The case of early phonological acquisition

10.31219/osf.io/8pnhr ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alejandrina Cristia

Keyword(s):

Current Evidence ◽

First Year ◽

Cultural Variation ◽

Phonological Acquisition ◽

Early Language ◽

Lexical Development ◽

Joint Learning ◽

First Year Of Life ◽

Learning Frameworks

There is wide individual, social, and cultural variation in experiences afforded to young children, yet current evidence suggests there is little variation in phonological outcomes in the first year of life. This paper provides a classification of phonological acquisition theories, revealing that few of them predict no variation in phonological acquisition outcomes, and thus are plausible in view of observed patterns: Only theories with strong priors and informational filters, and where phonological acquisition does not depend on lexical development, are compatible with great variation in early language experiences resulting in minimal or no outcome variation. The approach is then extended to consider proposals contemplating acquisition of other linguistic levels, including joint learning frameworks, and testable predictions are drawn for the acquisition of morphosyntax and vocabulary.

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Maternal Stress During Pregnancy and Allergic Diseases in Children During the First Year of Life

Respiratory Care ◽

10.4187/respcare.05692 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 63 (1) ◽

pp. 70-76 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Katarzyna Smejda ◽

Kinga Polanska ◽

Dorota Merecz-Kot ◽

Anna Krol ◽

Wojciech Hanke ◽

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Keyword(s):

Maternal Stress ◽

Allergic Diseases ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Of Life

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The Development of Swallowing Respiratory Coordination

Perspectives on Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia) ◽

10.1044/sasd18.1.19 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 19-24

Author(s):

Maggie-Lee Huckabee

Keyword(s):

Cortical Activation ◽

First Year ◽

Healthy Children ◽

Nasal Airflow ◽

Single Session ◽

Primary Finding ◽

Patterns Of Behavior ◽

Cortical Modulation ◽

First Year Of Life ◽

Swallowing Apnea

Abstract Research exists that evaluates the mechanics of swallowing respiratory coordination in healthy children and adults as well and individuals with swallowing impairment. The research program summarized in this article represents a systematic examination of swallowing respiratory coordination across the lifespan as a means of behaviorally investigating mechanisms of cortical modulation. Using time-locked recordings of submental surface electromyography, nasal airflow, and thyroid acoustics, three conditions of swallowing were evaluated in 20 adults in a single session and 10 infants in 10 sessions across the first year of life. The three swallowing conditions were selected to represent a continuum of volitional through nonvolitional swallowing control on the basis of a decreasing level of cortical activation. Our primary finding is that, across the lifespan, brainstem control strongly dictates the duration of swallowing apnea and is heavily involved in organizing the integration of swallowing and respiration, even in very early infancy. However, there is evidence that cortical modulation increases across the first 12 months of life to approximate more adult-like patterns of behavior. This modulation influences primarily conditions of volitional swallowing; sleep and naïve swallows appear to not be easily adapted by cortical regulation. Thus, it is attention, not arousal that engages cortical mechanisms.

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